Toy car.



TOY UAR.

APPLICATION FILED APR.21,1914.

1,108,628, Patented Aug. 25, 1914 INVENTO/E' W A: 560/ A TTURNEYS a specification.

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301 .CAB.

. Sp ec lfi,qatien of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 25, 1e; 7

ApplicatlIi-filed April 21, 1914. Serial N0.'833',438

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FRED'E. SEAL, a C1121: zen of the United States, and'a resident 01 Winchester, in the county of Frederick and State-of Nirginia,'have -made an Improvement in Toy Cars, of which the following is My invention is U grooved wheels adapted to run on a single cord, wire, or rail, and whose center of gravity is below such wheels, so that the car is self-supported.

The invention is characterized by certain novel and advantageous features, of construction, arrangement, and combination of parts, as hereinafter described.

In reference to the accompanying drawings: Figure 1 is a longitudinal section on the line 1..1 of Fig. 3, showing the car mounted upon a wire. Fig. 2 is a horizontal section on the line 22 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3

is a vertical cross-section on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1. Fig. 4 is a plan view of the sheet metal blank from which the body of the car is formed. Fig. 5 is a perspective view of a.

' portion of the car'body.

For the sake of li htness and economy in manufacture, thebo y of the car is formed ,of a sheet metal blank A, Fig. 4, the same being oblong and rectangular and provided on one side with end extensions a. The blank is bent or doubled upon itself into the form shown in Figs. 3 and 5, the main portions of the sides being parallel and provided wlth a series of openings which simulate windows.

The lower port-ions of edges 1) of the blank form downward extensions which are bent inward or inclined toward each other at a considerable angle, but whose lower ends are separated, as shown in Fig. 3, by a space sufficient to receive the wire a: upon which the car runs. When the sides of the body have been bent into the form described, the end extensions (1. are bent laterally or at right angles to the axis of the body so a's to form the ends of the car body, and they,

are conveniently secured by means of claws c which are formed integrally with the extension 11 and enter slots provided in the adjacent side of the car*body,,as shown in Fi 5. e I

l lear each end of the car body is located a transverse x'lc (1 having its hearings in the sides of the body just above the inclines a toy car having internal .1), and upon the center of .such va sle is mount- .ed a groovedwheel e wlnchruns'on a wire, cord, or rail :0 as shown. Upon the same axle d are mountedtwb wheels f whose function ispractically to add momentum to the ('0 car and thus assist the latter in ,running rapidly and steadily when due impetus has been given to it in any suitable manner.

In order to bring the center of gravity below the running. wheels e,- the car body is 6;,

weighted, as indicated at g. My preferred method for providing weights at this point is tocurve the lower inclined portions 12 of the car body, as shown in Figs. 1, 3, 5, thus forming receptacles for weights proper.

These may consist of lead laid into the grooved receptacles and which will be held therein by slight compression of the latter. I prefer, however, as a rule, to run hot lead into the receptacles provided in the manner described. It is obvious that the center of gravity may be raised or lowered by placing the weights higher or lower.

To enable the car body to be easily placed upon a wire or other support, or, in other words, to guide the wire into the grooves of the wheel 6, I provide guides k which are in the nature of wires or metal strips secured to the lower edgcsof the inc-lines b and ex-' tending upward into close proximity to the wheels 0, as shown clearly in Fig. 3. These guides enable the wheels of the car body to be placed on the wire with great facility. In practice, the lower edges of the guides I may be inserted in the grooves or pockets formed for reception of the weights {7, and

in fact they may be secured therein by clasping them about the weight or by inserting them in place under thehot leadas poured in, so that as the latter cools the guides will be held rigidly in due position.

Byrthe construction and combination of parts described, I produce a car distinguished by lightness, chcapness, and facility of application to, and removal from, a Wire:

with ease and rapidity.

The .car body may-be operated, that is to say, driven on asingle wire, cord, or rail in various ways, that is to say, in rails which have been heretofore employcd.- For instance, the wire may be raised or depressed at one end to place it in inclined POSilZlOll or the car may be provided with a sprin'gectu ed s e fo .nr rellinglit V or other support and adapted to be propelled.

I claiin:-

1. A car body formed of a sheet of 'thin flexible material which is bent or doubled along its transverse middle, the sides of the same being in parallel position and the lower edges of the sides bent inward at a considerable angle and their terminals or lower edges spaced apart to permit the application of a car to, and removal of the same from, a wire or other support.

2. A sheet metal car-body having internal running Wheels, and its lower edges extended downward and curved, at their extremi ties 'to produce pockets, and 1V Weights inserted and held in said pockets, the s'amebeing spaced apart, as described.

3. A toy car comprising a body having transverse axles near its end and running wheels mounted fast thereon, central momentum wheels also mounted on the same axles and, arranged in pairs and on opposite sides of the running wheels, as described.

FRED EDWIN SEAL.

Witnesses:

I. N. G000, H. M.'BARn. 

